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Exommunicated
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awelborn
Colombian Cardinal takes action: Cardinal Alfonso Llopez Trujillo announced Tuesday that the Colombian Catholic Church has excommunicated all persons involved in obtaining an abortion for an 11-year-old girl, who became pregnant after she was raped. The order includes the judges, politicians and legislators involved in the decision, as well as the doctors, nurses and the…
Mary for Evangelicals
By
awelborn
A PW review of a new book: In this dense, learned study, Perry, a professor of theology at Manitoba’s Providence College, attempts to bridge the different accounts of Mary that have long divided Catholics and evangelicals. The book was born of Protestant Perry’s nagging sense that his tradition did not give the mother of Jesus…
Kristof and evangelicals
By
awelborn
Christianity Today interviews NYTimes columnist Nicholas Kristof, who has written quite a bit about global poverty and strife, and the role of religion in ameliorating it: What’s surprised you about covering evangelicals? There is a really important change going on within the evangelical community. In general, evangelicals had been a disproportionally isolationist constituency in the…
Reader Bleg
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awelborn
A college student writes: This semester at (State U. X.) I am taking a class, "Enlightenment and Modern World". Because of some comments my professor has made, implicitly equating the pre-Enlightenment period with "fanaticism" and inquisitions. I was wondering if either you or your readers know the following, and could document it: 1) Approximately how…
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